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Illinois Adventure
Explore the Deere-Wiman House in Moline in a brand new Illinois Adventure premiering August 1st at
8:00pm. Built in 1872 by Charles Deere, son of John Deere, the house was designed by Chicago architect
William LeBaron Jenny. Host Jim Wilhelm escorts viewers through the house and the history of its many
renovations and intriguing additions while sharing stories of four generations of the Deere family.
The program also visits the DeMoulin Museum in Greenville to try out its treasure trove of antique
initiation devices used to great amusement in lodge ceremonies. Then it’s off to Franklin Grove to
the headquarters of the Lincoln Highway Association to learn about the historic road markers that
still exist in spite of federal attempts to make them obsolete. The show also goes to Decatur to see
the Oglesby Mansion—home of Governor Richard J. Oglesby. Still undergoing careful restoration, the
house is filled with unusual artifacts and interesting stories from Oglesby’s life as a U.S. Senator,
Union General in the Civil War, three-term governor of Illinois, and close friend and colleague of
Abraham Lincoln.

Illinois Adventure, hosted by Jim Wilhelm and produced by William Baker,
generally airs on Thursdays at 8 p.m., repeating the following Sundays at 4 p.m. For additional information
on past episodes, destination locations, contact information and directions, visit our Illinois
Adventure website at www.illinoisadventuretv.org.

This program is made possible by a grant from Country Financial.

Interesting PeopleInteresting People with host Ed Sutkowski airs most Fridays at 7:30 p.m. The series
can also be seen each Wednesday from 8-9 p.m. on WTVP World channel 47.2. For more information about
Interesting People visit its webpage.
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At Issue in Brief
H Wayne Wilson continues exploring issues of interest to Central Illinois through At Issue in
Brief. Look for these short news programs on air in between regularly scheduled programming
this summer or visit the At Issue in Brief webpage.
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Look for new segments this month including a three-part “Dig” series from the Emiquon
Preserve discussing the Native American cultures that co-habited there more than 700 years ago and
the artifacts they left behind. Dickson Mounds Museum Associate Curator Mike Conner and Michigan State
University Anthropology Department Chair Jodie O'Gorman are featured.

And in “Hotel”, H looks at the newly opened Peoria Marriott Pere Marquette and the
Courtyard Marriott Hotel that will open next summer and interviews hotel owner Gary Matthews, CEO
of EM Properties, and Laura Lojas, General Manger of the Peoria Marriott Pere Marquette.

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For further information contact Linda Miller, WTVP Vice President of
Programming,
at (309) 495-0591 or linda.miller@wtvp.org